A user looking to reset his Palm Pre to factory state (using webOS Doctor from Palm) got a pleasant surprise when he did so. By the time he was done, his Palm Pre had been upgraded to webOS 1.2 which has yet to be released. Others were able to reproduce this as well.
Palm has since replaced the version of webOS Doctor (Build Sprint.100.166 08/30/09 08:03) that provided webOS 1.2 with one (Build Sprint.76.143 07/24/09 19:44) that restores back to the currently available webOS 1.1.
Among the new features spotted in webOS 1.2 are the ability to enter account information in the App Catalog (supporting forthcoming paid apps), a new Select All option on the browser’s Edit menu, and some small changes in the GPS location services.
Can the official webOS 1.2 release be far behind?